4MLinux Allinone Edition 6.0 user reviews

Sorry, I can't get in. I "changed" the password, I logged in as "root", I applied the password and a commandline shows up, something like:
root@:-SH
and no matter what I type, the same commandline shows up. So much for passwords.
Lucky - plastic disks get recycled.......

@kowari
Wow ! You've started to read 4MLinux help. Better later than never, so congratulations! If you read more carefully, you would fine the following sentence:

Note: If you see any warnings ("Bad password: too short" or "Bad password: too weak"), you can ignore them now, meaning that you should repeat the same ("bad") password again. You'll be able to change it later.

PS:
And yes, 4MLinux installs its packages in real time during the boot time.

OK then:
I followed the instructions that zk1234 was kind enough to provide:
Read this: http://4mlinux.com/login.txt
As far as I can read, the password has to be changed only once. Why? Because the next line starts with root@........
If I put a short password in, already it tells me, pw too short. So I put in a long one.
When it asks for pw, I type it in. It tells me : password not found.

I repeated this procedure 6 times in more or less slightly different ways, e.g. type the initial "password-change" twice instead of once. Actually, I put the "password-change" in parenthesis because I actually didn't change anything. If I changed something, what was the password before? If there was a password before and had the compiler left it as it was and told me the password in the general description of the distro, then I would be able to get in.

Talk about passwords. For love or money I can't see any reason whatsoever to even put a password onto something that's to be put into memory. Who is going to steal what? Who could possibly do something "illegal" without password? If I was programmer or compiler, I would compile the distro in such a way, that the distro loads into memory without password. Upon installing the distro, one could program an option in - to setup an user-account with password, although that option could be deferred until setup is complete, everything is working well and then set up a password? What's wrong with this approach?

I also noticed during the loading of the distro into memory the following (100 times over) : Installing......etc. etc. etc.

I don't think it was installing anything at all. It might have been "unpacking" something but definitely NOT installing. If it was installing, where did it install it to?

I still haven't seen anything of this distro, except the nice sample-photo with Softpedia :))

I don't even know, how everybody gets to talk about mice working or not, myself I couldn't get past the logon screen (black). What's my name and what's my password please?

"the cd boots fine but when i enter into its GUI mode, my mouse cursor begins to run too fast and application keep running automaticaly by moving cusror over them.
so for me it is waste of time. Just download system rescue cd , a much better destro.

and yes the cd boots fine in virtual box , mouse cursor works fine.
i m using a usb mouse, dual core, 2GB"

Does it make sense to run rescue CD in virtual box? What for? Will antivirus, partitioning software (and so on) work correctly?

the cd boots fine but when i enter into its GUI mode, my mouse cursor begins to run too fast and application keep running automaticaly by moving cusror over them.
so for me it is waste of time. Just download system rescue cd , a much better destro.

and yes the cd boots fine in virtual box , mouse cursor works fine.
i m using a usb mouse, dual core, 2GB

"the sample photos online for this distro are the best features of it. From the beginning, the installation was difficult and and updating was terrible! Useless and not worth the time to even to download. This is an experimental project for the developers, from my experience!"

Yes, you're right. 4MLinux may be difficult for beginners. But if, for example, you use Linux Mint you will only learn how Mint works. With 4MLinux you have chance to learn Linux, so it may be worthwhile to download...

the sample photos online for this distro are the best features of it. From the beginning, the installation was difficult and and updating was terrible! Useless and not worth the time to even to download. This is an experimental project for the developers, from my experience!